And now a goodbye from me too. I was planning to keep our High up! for a good while yet but two weeks ago my wife (with her 95 year old dad) suffered a hit-and-run crash in town at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon. Up! declared a write-off (cat C). LV have given me a fair valuation (altho I'm STILL awaiting it! 'cheque's in the post sir').

Thankfully, I had been thinking about my next car - an automatic (but a DSG or CVT, not an ASG as in the up! and new Ignis and other town cars). Local VW dealer has found me a used POLO (thanks to this Forum's ex-Moderator Privatedoc for your endorsement of the Polo 1.2 TSI; and to 'Dash' for your endorsement and PMs) with the spec I wanted. I can transfer my service plan to it (but not the balance of the extended warrantee I'd bought on the up!)

Would I recommend the up! ? Most certainly ... but NOT for me again until VW put the illuminated switches on the drivers door which they put on every other model of their cars plus a DSG auto box (like the 15 plate Polo I am getting).

There was a just-delivered TSI up! at the dealership yesterday. Still no illuminated door switches ... but it does now have the driver's vanity mirror and rear parcel shelf lifter strings, both of which I fitted to my up! - and of course the up! now has the front passenger window switch on the driver's door - what a crass omission that was! Reminds me of the Morris delivery van where the front passenger seat was extra; and like the 3-forward gears Ford Popular (on which my wife learned to drive) where the heater was extra.

PS - and of course, the up! also lacks the 'One-touch' facility on the driver's window. So standard is it that the POLO 2015 brochure does not even mention it when listing ALL(?) the features of each model. Standard everywhere except on the up!, even the High up!

Edited by PeterWestSussex - 08 Aug 2017 at 6:09pm

Sadly, our Jan 2013 Red High-up!written-off by hit-and-run on a Saturday aft in town. Was thinking of upgrading to a Polo, so have now got a used 1.2 TSI 110 DSG but much sooner than planned.

And now a goodbye from me too. I was planning to keep our High up! for a good while yet but two weeks ago my wife (with her 95 year old dad) suffered a hit-and-run crash in town at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon. Up! declared a write-off (cat C). LV have given me a fair valuation (altho I'm STILL awaiting it! 'cheque's in the post sir').

Thankfully, I had been thinking about my next car - an automatic (but a DSG or CVT, not an ASG as in the up! and new Ignis and other town cars). Local VW dealer has found me a used POLO (thanks to this Forum's ex-Moderator Privatedoc for your endorsement of the Polo 1.2 TSI; and to 'Dash' for your endorsement and PMs) with the spec I wanted. I can transfer my service plan to it (but not the balance of the extended warrantee I'd bought on the up!)

Would I recommend the up! ? Most certainly ... but NOT for me again until VW put the illuminated switches on the drivers door which they put on every other model of their cars plus a DSG auto box (like the 15 plate Polo I am getting).

There was a just-delivered TSI up! at the dealership yesterday. Still no illuminated door switches ... but it does now have the driver's vanity mirror and rear parcel shelf lifter strings, both of which I fitted to my up! - and of course the up! now has the front passenger window switch on the driver's door - what a crass omission that was! Reminds me of the Morris delivery van where the front passenger seat was extra; and like the 3-forward gears Ford Popular (on which my wife learned to drive) where the heater was extra.

Hello,

My dealer loaned me a new Polo as a courtesy car for a week while I awaited delivery of my new Move Up! back in March.

I really enjoyed using the car, but felt the illuminated switches on the door panels maybe unnecessarily added to the myriad of switch back lighting already present throughout the cabin. Maybe it's an age thing, but I prefer less in the way of interior lighting. Having said that, the Polo was a great car to drive and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it if a slightly larger car was required.

My 2017 UP has some totally unnecessary "mood" lighting along the full length of the dash, weird!

I had a Saab which had a neat feature. A night switch. It turned off all the dash lights except the speedo, it genuinely assisted night driving. In the event that say you got to low fuel or the engine temperature got too high it was clever enough to switch them back on. Shame that General Motors stuffed it all up.

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